The Obama administration has infected many U.S. agencies with green-sharia bureaucrats attempting to "stone" the American economy into submission with its anti-growth, anti-job and anti-scientific CO2 policies - symptoms of this green-radical agenda include exaggerating the uniqueness and severity of extreme recent weather events, such as the 2012 drought

Using NOAA's online climate empirical evidence tools, the above charts easily counter the U.S. taxpayer funded green-fundamentalist scientists' claims that the drought of 2012 was "unique", "unprecedented" or "without equal."

Well prior to modern era's massive growth in consumer/industrial CO2 emissions, severe droughts had frequently plagued major areas of the U.S. The above Y-T-D through October NOAA precipitation charts, for a variety of pre-1960 years, factually demonstrate this.

Note on 'Green-sharia': Global warming alarmists and anti-CO2 advocates embody a green belief system that closely resembles an anti-science theology, primarily based on flaky, cult-like doomsday scenarios. Like any group of cultists, they are extremely gullible in regards to authoritarian fear-mongering, to the point of idolatry fanaticism. Not only do these fundamentalists reject any empirical evidence that questions their green ideology, they will aggressively attack and smear any heretic/skeptic who challenges their beliefs. It's bad enough that these ideologue zealots are constantly proselytizing about their doomsday scenarios to the unwary, but like the the worst-of-the-worst religious extremists, they want to force everyone to kowtow to their fundamentalism - in essence, the imposition of their green-sharia.